Education Week

Even though only one state has adopted the standards, some teachers have already scrapped old lessons and instructional styles to embrace new ones.

The blueprint for the standards writers, the framework provides a reader-friendly accompaniment to the "technical document."

The District of Columbia has devoted many resources to the standards, resulting in hopes, frustrations, and the knowledge that changes are necessary.

Mikel Robinson is among millions of students trying to meet the common standards.

Now Brian Pick has the challenge of ensuring students, many of them disadvantaged, master the common core.

When Dowan McNair-Lee took an education class at college, she knew that was where she belonged.

Proposed mandates for emergency-preparedness drills are gaining traction in many statehouses.

The unsuccessful drive to teach the metric system in schools presents a cautionary tale about teacher buy-in for common-core advocates, writes Jeanne Zaino.

Shifting to statewide school funding systems would address inequities in the way education is paid for, writes Cynthia G. Brown.

School environments should fulfill a student's need to feel engaged intellectually and emotionally in the learning process, Jim Childress writes.

Candidates sketch competing education policy visions in New Jersey and Virginia, the two states picking governors in 2013.